. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture . ^■^H Doctor Apple. 3>.^t PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 401 true sort, which evidently possesses high merit in several importantpoints, and gives evidence of becoming a popular variety. Its rediscovery, after remaining practically an unknown sort exceptin a few widely scattered localities, is due to Mr. Thomas T. Newby,of Carthage, Ind. Mr. Newbys father grafted a tree with scions froma tree of unknown identity in an orchard in that vicinity in 1854, andsome twenty years later Mr. Newby himself grafted a small seedlingtree of the sam
. Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture . ^■^H Doctor Apple. 3>.^t PROMISING NEW FRUITS. 401 true sort, which evidently possesses high merit in several importantpoints, and gives evidence of becoming a popular variety. Its rediscovery, after remaining practically an unknown sort exceptin a few widely scattered localities, is due to Mr. Thomas T. Newby,of Carthage, Ind. Mr. Newbys father grafted a tree with scions froma tree of unknown identity in an orchard in that vicinity in 1854, andsome twenty years later Mr. Newby himself grafted a small seedlingtree of the same variety. Being impressed with the beauty, symmetry,and uniform size of the fruit, which he found to be of fair dessertquality, Mr. Newby, who had supposed it a well-known old variety,became convinced of its value when he found that the severe winter of1880-81, which nearly ruined the orchards in his section, did not injureit. He then undertook to ascertain its identity, submitting specimensto experts and exhibiting the variety at State and other fairs
Size: 1809px × 1381px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectsugarbeetunitedstate
